With tariffs paused for 90 days to allow time for talks, shipments have revived as businesses rush to meet back-to-school and other seasonal deadlines.
Florida general manager Bill Zito was announced Friday as one of three finalists for the Jim Gregory Award, presented to the top GM in the NHL.The other finalists: 2023 and 2024 winner Jim Nill of the Dallas Stars, and Winnipeg Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff.
Zito is a finalist for the fourth time and third in a row, after finishing third in the voting in 2021, 2023 and 2024.Florida lost its last home game — Game 6 vs. Toronto in Round 2. The Panthers went 3-0 on the road trip that followed, winning a season-saving Game 7 at Toronto and then Games 1 and 2 at Carolina.Combined score of those games: Florida 16, Opponents 3.
“I think we’re all a little bit at a loss,” Carolina forward Taylor Hall said. “But this is the playoffs and we’re playing against the best teams right now.”Florida goalie Sergei Bobrovsky is 5-1 with a 1.01 goals-against average and .958 save percentage in his last six games.
Other than the 40-year-old Marc-Andre Fleury’s 24-minute appearance for Minnesota in Round 1, Bobrovsky — who turns 37 in about four months — is the oldest goalie to see time in this year’s playoffs.
There’s another tie between the two. This run by Bobrovsky marks the first time any starting goalie has posted a GAA of 1.01 or less in a six-game span of a single postseason since Fleury in 2018, when he went 5-1-0 with a 1.00 GAA and save percentage of .967 in a stretch for Vegas.Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was nearly unchanged at 8,360.70.
Other regional markets were mostly lower.On Friday, U.S. stocks fell as traders weighed whether Trump’s latest threats were just negotiating tactics.
The S&P 500 lost 0.7% to 5,802.82 to close out itsin the last seven. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.6% to 41,603.07, and the Nasdaq composite sank 1% to 18,737.21.